Apple forced to publish that Samsung didn't copy them!

now now guys calm down. Just like apple and the others you two are just coming off as as bad as each other lol

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Originally Posted by Flisker

I think we have all established now that the patent system is corrupt in most countries and companies of any size abuse it to get back at their rivals whether it's a personal vendetta or not.

I know you two are attempting at a civil -somewhat heated - discussion but you are getting to the point where you're about to do something stupid.

Agreed. I have made the points I wanted to regarding how the problem is to do with the industry (blaming Apple, as well as other corps too of course), and I'm going to abstain from quoting Gomme any further. If he wants to sit in his anti-Apple tower and dance around baselessly insulting me he may do so, but I for one don't wish to get worked up as such and respond in an equally meritless way.

I may enjoy Apple, love my Microsoft peripherals and cling dearly to my cyanogen flavored Android tablets, but I'm always going to argue protecting consumers from all these companies when I feel it's necessary :)

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Originally Posted by HotelUser

Agreed. I have made the points I wanted to regarding how the problem is to do with the industry (blaming Apple, as well as other corps too of course), and I'm going to abstain from quoting Gomme any further. If he wants to sit in his anti-Apple tower and dance around baselessly insulting me he may do so, but I for one don't wish to get worked up as such and respond in an equally meritless way.

I may enjoy Apple, love my Microsoft peripherals and cling dearly to my cyanogen flavored Android tablets, but I'm always going to argue protecting consumers from all these companies when I feel it's necessary :)

I'm not completely anti-Apple... If you read my posts you might learn something, other than ignore them and end the discussion because you fail to come back with any answersor anything worthy of discussion. I hate the patent system yet you completely blank that fact and turn a thread around because you think I do not and fail to acknolwedge this. Hence why my quotes were becoming malicious because you ignored my posts, which is incredibly rude.

Consumers don't need protecting, the problem with the patent system isn't that it protects customers (or attacks them as the case may be), the problem with the patent system is that it ignores the customers. Customers are apparently nothing to do with competition, they barely feature in competition law, yet consumers are the ones that set the competition standards by what they buy and prefer - not the courts as I stated already in the thread (you're yet to comment on this fact). It's madness that the patent system is damaging to the industry and consumer choice.

Besides, most of your argument was based on this idea you have that apparently I think Apple is the only one that abuses the patent system, and went on to spend 2 pages rabbiting on about how I should admit that it doesn't, when I never said it did. You didn't mention anything about protecting consumers from these companies in any of your posts. I was the first to mention consumer choice in this post. Your response was a baseless remark that my "home company" has been doing it for years (baseless in the sense that 1. I must really love Microsoft and 2. That I'm not aware of this), making no reference to the fact that I said the consumer should decide what the competition is, not Microsoft or Apple (you did your usual protect Apple tirade blanking most of my posts, again very rude).

Looks like we have a couple of bad Apples in the thread. badumtish.

Ok, I'll go.